Canaletto
Bernardo Bellotto Paints Europe
Distributed for Hirmer Publishers
360 pages
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240 color plates
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11 x 9
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© 2015
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Table of Contents

Contents
Greetings
Elio Menzione
Foreword
Klaus Shrenk
Essays
A Lot of Art for a Lot of Truth: How the Vedutista Looks the City in the Face
Andreas Schumacher
Made for the Dining Room, the Antechamber, and the Gallery
Commissioners and Functions of Bellotto’s Vedute
Julia Thoma
Bernardo Bellotto as Landscape Painter
Bozena Anna Kowalcyzk
The Seduction of the Gaze
Architectural Fantasies of the 1760s
Andrea Gottdang
Bernardo Bellotto, called Canaletto
A Venetian Look at Central Europe
Theresa Wagener
Biography
Teresa Wagener
Catalogue
Andreas Gottdang, Bozena Anna Kowalcyk, Andreas Schumacher, Julia Thoma, Theresa Wagener
The Views in Munich
City and Palace—Duty and Leisure
Bellotto’s Works for the Munich Residenz in the Context of Ceremonial and Flattery
Christian Quaeitzsch
Geodetic Analysis of the View of Munich
Wolfgang Wiedermann
Munich from the East
Identification of the Buildings Depicted
Painting Technique and Restoration of the City View
Wolf Zech
Bellotto Portrays Nymphenburg
The Prince and his Court in the Summer Palace
Peter O. Kruckmann
The Palace Views as Architectural History
Ernst Gotz
Vanishing Point and Grid of Threads
Nymphenburg Palace from the Park—The Construction of the Picture
Bettina Schwabe
Literature
Photo Credits
Elio Menzione
Foreword
Klaus Shrenk
Essays
A Lot of Art for a Lot of Truth: How the Vedutista Looks the City in the Face
Andreas Schumacher
Made for the Dining Room, the Antechamber, and the Gallery
Commissioners and Functions of Bellotto’s Vedute
Julia Thoma
Bernardo Bellotto as Landscape Painter
Bozena Anna Kowalcyzk
The Seduction of the Gaze
Architectural Fantasies of the 1760s
Andrea Gottdang
Bernardo Bellotto, called Canaletto
A Venetian Look at Central Europe
Theresa Wagener
Biography
Teresa Wagener
Catalogue
Andreas Gottdang, Bozena Anna Kowalcyk, Andreas Schumacher, Julia Thoma, Theresa Wagener
The Views in Munich
City and Palace—Duty and Leisure
Bellotto’s Works for the Munich Residenz in the Context of Ceremonial and Flattery
Christian Quaeitzsch
Geodetic Analysis of the View of Munich
Wolfgang Wiedermann
Munich from the East
Identification of the Buildings Depicted
Painting Technique and Restoration of the City View
Wolf Zech
Bellotto Portrays Nymphenburg
The Prince and his Court in the Summer Palace
Peter O. Kruckmann
The Palace Views as Architectural History
Ernst Gotz
Vanishing Point and Grid of Threads
Nymphenburg Palace from the Park—The Construction of the Picture
Bettina Schwabe
Literature
Photo Credits
Review Quotes
Choice
“Recommended. . . . The book is both scholarly and accessible, with excellent quality color illustrations, and introduces the artist and European view painting of the eighteenth century.”
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